Hisami Ando

..Therefore, we suggest our anastomotic technique with wide-interval interrupted suture to prevent biliary complications in pediatric living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT)...

..In the 16th week, the muscularis propria extends from just outside the fenestra to the upper end of the ampulla. By the 28th week, the musculus proprius is differentiated almost to the distal end of the ampulla...

..The present study speculates that bile lakes would arise from original bile ducts, which are damaged, and fuse together after calculi are formed in bile ducts...

..There is controversy over treatment between pediatric and adult patients. We reevaluated our previous definition of the nondilated type in children (common bile duct diameter <or=6 mm on cholangiography)...

..The stenotic bile duct was widened, and the stones were easily removed. Intrahepatic calculi have not recurred for 2 years. The present technique is another modality for the correction of biliary stenoses...

..Agents that dissolve protein plugs can provide relief from or prevent symptoms. In the present study, drugs reportedly effective for pancreatic and biliary stones were used in dissolution tests...

..This is the first case of successful liver transplantation for CAPV with cardiac failure...

..We investigated whether the cystic lesions constituted a single entity...

..We hypothesized neuronal disorders of the biliary tract as the cause of congenital biliary dilation (CBD)...

..We report that fatty calcium acid stones/debris are another previously unreported cause of obstructive symptoms in 2 cases with choledochal cyst...

..Long-term Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) monitoring for potentially life-threatening posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder (PTLD) has identified asymptomatic patients who maintain high EBV loads over long periods...

..88, P < 0.0001). The FISH assay enabled us to characterize EBV-infected cells and perform a quantitative analysis in patients with EBV infection after stem cell/liver transplantation...

..These findings suggest that pediatric liver transplant patients may respond safely to inactivated 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccines in a manner similar to immunocompetent children...

..No study has analyzed overall changes in genetic expression beginning during childhood in gallbladder epithelia with pancreaticobiliary maljunction...

..Profiles of polyunsaturated fatty acids, on which metabolic products have an immunoregulative effect, were investigated in this study...

..CONCLUSIONS: Hepatolithiasis occurs after hepatic portoenterostomy for biliary atresia more frequently than previously thought. Bile stasis and possibly bile infection are the main causes of calculi formation...

..The mechanism involves trypsinogen and lithostathine regurgitating into the cyst through an aberrant union of pancreaticobiliary ducts. Activated trypsin cleaves soluble lithostathine into insoluble forms that aggregate to form plugs...

..There are still few reports on thoracoscopic lobectomy in neonates. The rate of prenatally diagnosed congenital cystic lung diseases is increasing, and such diseases appear to be a good indication for thoracoscopic lobectomy...

..For 2 years, she has been disease free. This is the first report on transplantation to relieve liver metastasis of SPT...

..Activated trypsin cleaves soluble PSP and creates insoluble PSP. Protein plugs in pancreaticobiliary maljunction may be formed by assembled insoluble PSP...

..These findings suggest that pediatric liver transplant patients may respond safely to inactivated seasonal influenza vaccines in a similar manner to healthy children, and effectiveness varies among influenza seasons...

..Three-dimensional computed tomography bronchoscopy was effective to demonstrate accurate anatomical changes of the bronchus...

..As preoperative management for patients with these cysts, we prospectively employed endoscopic drainage, based on the theory that protein plugs cause symptoms by obstructing the pancreatobiliary ducts...

..Here we show the different effect of HBV vaccine between chronic HBV carrier and non-HBV patients who received grafts from HBc antibody-positive donors...

..Bile infection through bilioenterostomy may play an important role in intrahepatic calculus formation after excision of a choledochal cyst...

..Both a 3D image and positional information with MRH-CT offers the surgeon a simulated operative profile of the SMC superior to CT or magnetic resonance imaging slices alone...

..The aim of this investigation is to clarify the status of ICC and nitrergic inhibitory neurons in the LES of EA using immunohistochemistry...

..In isolated left-sided CDH, the %RFLV is a good predictor not only of postnatal mortality but also of the requirement for ECMO...

..Our aim was to determine the morphological features of the extrahepatic portal vein in children with extrahepatic portal hypertension by 3-dimensional computed tomographic portography and to clarify the etiology of this disorder...

..These results demonstrate that whole blood is more suitable for the quantification of EBV DNA in transplant patients. However, a cutoff value with clinical relevance still needs to be determined...

..020 and 0.047, respectively). In conclusion, immune-mediated reactions by occult antibodies may underlie the pathogeneses of fibrosis and IH...

..The clinical significance of the hepatofugal portal blood flow after abdominal surgery involving other than portosystemic shunt was investigated in our hepatobiliary pancreatic surgical division...

..This automatic ECMO system required fewer personnel expenditures and was also favorable in terms of hematological findings...

..In conclusion, BECs in BA remnant are "alive", and their proliferation activity can be maintained...

..Colonic atresia should be generally screened for Hirschsprung's disease with a rectal biopsy. J..